Pentagon Playing Key Role in Reshaping U.S. Industrial Future

摘要

The revival of U.S. manufacturing was a dominant theme of the 2016 presidential election. As the jobs rhetoric has grown louder, federal agencies led by the Defense Department have been quietly laying the foundation for a high-tech manufacturing surge. The Pentagon, notably, has been assembling a large network of government, private-sector and academic-players in a bid to secure access to critical technologies the military needs, while also trying to motivate corporations to invest in advanced manufacturing research.